Re:Why the Wolfram Language Is (Like) Open Source
by 0xCMP on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:27PM
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the blobs certainly aren't. but thats just certain drivers. everything else is.
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Re:Why the Wolfram Language Is (Like) Open Source
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:15PM
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Not even drivers, AFAIK; it's firmware blobs that have to be loaded to the device in order for it to run, but nothing on the actual "host" computer side. So like, if you have a wifi card with blobs, you have to hand it a firmware blob to "boot" the card, but once it's up you can talk to it using a fully GPLv2 driver in Linux (which talks to the proprietary wireless firmware over PCIe or whatever).